Subwave is a free podcast hosting app that distributes to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more, and generates titles, newsletters, and social clips from a single upload.
Recording a podcast is easy. It's everything after, where to host it, how to get it onto Spotify and Apple Podcasts, what happens once it's live, that stops most people before they even start. Most hosting platforms charge a monthly fee, cap how many episodes you can upload, or charge extra just to reach certain directories. Subwave skips all of that. It's free, and the whole setup takes about four steps and a few minutes.
The app is free, and it walks you through setup in four steps that take minutes rather than hours.
Open Subwave and create your channel first, everything else builds on top of this. Give it a name, write a short description of what your show is about, and upload your cover art. Take your time here: that artwork is what listeners see when they're scrolling Spotify or Apple Podcasts deciding whether to tap on your show, so it's worth getting right before you move on.
Go into hosting settings. Make your channel public so podcast platforms can actually find it (a private channel won't distribute anywhere), and pick a category so your show surfaces in the right section when people browse. Add your name and email, and that's it, hosting is fully configured. This step usually takes under a minute.
Once hosting is set up, Subwave automatically generates your RSS feed. Think of it as the address that tells Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, and every other platform where to find your show. You submit that one link to each platform a single time. After that, every new episode you publish shows up everywhere automatically, no manual uploads per platform.
If you want a hand with that step specifically, Subwave has separate walkthroughs for submitting your RSS feed to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
It is free, it's simple, and it does more than most paid platforms out there.
Tap "New Post," upload your audio or video file, and hit publish. You don't need to write a title or description yourself, Subwave generates those from your recording automatically. And it doesn't stop at the episode: that same upload also produces a newsletter ready to send to your subscribers, short clips for TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube, and show notes, all from the one file you uploaded.
If you've bounced off traditional podcast hosting before, the monthly fees, the episode caps, the directories that want extra money, a genuinely free, one-upload workflow changes the math on whether starting a show is worth the effort. No extra tools, no extra subscriptions, no separate accounts to juggle across five different apps.
